IN LESS THAN 10 minutes you can't help but fall in love with Visqueen.

You find out how funny singer/guitarist Rachel Flotard and drummer Ben Hooker are; you hear their music; you meet Flotard's dad, George, who uses "jake" as another word for "OK."

This is the condensed version of one of the best bands you may never have heard of, and they're right here -- in Ballard.

They're featured on the broadcast premiere of CW11/KSTW's "Underground," a documentary short film series about local artists, musicians, skateboarders, spoken word artists, etc. It will always about individuals, not event based.

"We really give viewers a privileged, intimate view of someone's life," said series producer Howard Shack. "We try to find who we think are people who are off the radar of mainstream media. ... We're hopefully going to reach an audience that doesn't go to our Web site, that doesn't know these amazing things are happening in their backyard. I've just been completely blown away about how talented people are. I think of it as England in the '60s and '70s pouring out all this incredible music."

For a little less than a year, their stories have been available at kstw.com/underground, but now it's going to air on KSTW/11 at 9 Saturday night and again at 9:30 p.m. April 12. The plan is to broadcast a half hour of "Underground" every three months, but all of it is always available -- free -- online.

The three subjects in the first on-air show comprise a sort "best of" the previous online shows. Along with Visqueen, viewers can discover the Spectrum Dance Theater, which asks tough questions about the true cost of war, and PWRFL Power, aka Japanese music student Kazutaka Nomura.